i like these songs. maybe recent discussions shaded my opinion, but when I listened last night the music reminded me a lot of early Interpol. singer sounds like he looks like Truman Capote or Andy Warhol. and yeah it's a horrible band name but that's easy to get past if you end up digging them - Echo & the Bunnymen perennial example of this.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
I love them but it really is one of the worst band names ever except for maybe Butterknife which was an old roommate's boyfriend's band.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
The lyrics are worse than the name and really difficult to ignore.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
Sex After Cigarettes rolls better for a name.
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 12:03 (six years ago) link
this is straight-up hateful garbage
― imago, Thursday, 15 June 2017 09:09 (six years ago) link
band you have written off or pointedly ignored etc.
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 15 June 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
honesty, calling themselves Mazzy Star II would have been considerably less embarrassing
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 15 June 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
they should cover The Vaccines' 'Post-Breakup Sex' for Radio 1's Live Lounge
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 15 June 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
i prefer the name to the music which is indeed a lame mazzy star imitation.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
lol calling this "hateful garbage." i didn't read the lyrics, are there slurs in there?
― flappy bird, Friday, 16 June 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
that band name is really bad
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 June 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
― flappy bird, Friday, June 16, 2017 6:19 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is as aesthetically repulsive a complete package as i've encountered in a long old time, lyrics, music and all
― imago, Friday, 16 June 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
http://www.gettyimages.dk/detail/video/older-man-collapsing-as-he-works-in-field-men-stock-video-footage/1233-2
― brownie, Friday, 16 June 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
I can't believe i didn't post about this but a few weeks ago I looked these guys up on youtube for the first time and had my mind blown as I've thought it was a female singer for over a year!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 22 September 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
they covered "Keep On Loving You" recently which I imagine might earn them a new heap of scorn
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 22 September 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
They've been doing it for a while now and it's amazing.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
i think cigarettes after sex are better than sex after smoking...
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 28 September 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
i like this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXupa6hEDYk
also listened to the other track that has been released from the upcoming album but didn't feel one way or the other about it
― dyl, Thursday, 24 October 2019 05:06 (four years ago) link
i have to say this band’s twitter feed is execrable, truly awful stuff
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 17 November 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
who would have possibly thought it
― imago, Sunday, 17 November 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
ok i looked, holy lol
the tens of thousands of abject basics liking each and every pronouncement should be forced to hand over their phones
― imago, Sunday, 17 November 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
lmao
― dyl, Monday, 18 November 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
I should hate’em since my soon to be ex’ crush absolutely adores this band. Unaware of said crush and her love for this band, he used to rave about’em. Then I discovered why he listened to’em. Hilarious. I checked’em out. Bland. So no love nor hate.
― nathom, Monday, 18 November 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
Cigarettes After Sex are a slowcore/dream pop band on an indie label and they have crazy high streaming numbers - it feels like a lot of people don't notice they're this big? their top song is no one's idea of commercial but it's closing in on a billion streams on Spotify pic.twitter.com/Oa4vSpcUai— Matthew Perpetua (@perpetua) July 13, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 14 July 2023 04:40 (nine months ago) link
i know, perpetua, but i had no idea
I mean a lot of the reason they're crushing it is because it's sex playlist music, but why does this not come up often as an example of wildly popular legit indie rock band?— Matthew Perpetua (@perpetua) July 13, 2023
also this came up because I was checking to see if they'd sold out Forest Hills Stadium and the answer is like 92% right now, and the cheap seats at this show are $147 each— Matthew Perpetua (@perpetua) July 13, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 14 July 2023 04:41 (nine months ago) link
beneath our watch has arisen a supercell of the culturally benighted, and cigarettes after sex are their schlager
― imago, Friday, 14 July 2023 07:10 (nine months ago) link
Always liked them (well, hence starting the thread) but I was surprised just how much ILX didn’t fancy them much at all.
I still like them. Very XX/Interpol influenced, but then I think that about most woozy rock of the last decade or so.
― piscesx, Friday, 14 July 2023 13:39 (nine months ago) link